Air Terminal Crowd

The shimmering sunlight reflects off of propellors and people's sunglasses as you sit and wait for your flight to depart. The details of a thousand smiling vacationers becomes a blur of motion in a constant stream of white shorts and black bags flowing past your eyes. You blink and they are gone, replaced by an almost identical set, and yet different in their configuration and carry-on count. An airport terminal is a building at an airport where passengers transfer between ground transportation and the facilities that allow them to board and disembark from aircraft. Within the terminal, passengers purchase tickets, transfer their luggage, and go through security. The buildings that provide access to the airplanes (via gates) are typically called concourses. However, the terms "terminal" and "concourse" are sometimes used interchangeably, depending on the configuration of the airport. Most airport terminals are built in a plain style. However, some, such as Baghdad International Airport, are monumental in stature, while others are considered architectural masterpieces, such as Terminal 1 at Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris or Terminal 5 at New York's JFK Airport. A few are designed to reflect the culture of a particular area, some examples being the terminal at Albuquerque International Sunport in New Mexico, which is designed in the Pueblo Revival style popularized by architect John Gaw Meem, as well as the terminal at Bahías de Huatulco International Airport in Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico, which features some palapas that are interconnected to form the airport terminal. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=120835